For he has crushed and abandoned the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.
Job 31:16 - Revised Standard Version “If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If I have withheld from the poor and needy what they desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to look in vain [for relief], American Standard Version (1901) If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, Common English Bible If I have denied what the poor wanted, made a widow’s eyes tired, Catholic Public Domain Version If I have denied the poor what they wanted and have made the eyes of the widow wait; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: |
For he has crushed and abandoned the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.
He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever; his horn is exalted in honor.
My eyes fail with watching for thy salvation, and for the fulfilment of thy righteous promise.
My eyes fail with watching for thy promise; I ask, “When wilt thou comfort me?”
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;
She opens her hand to the poor, and reaches out her hands to the needy.
to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be thou my security!
Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
does not wrong any one, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
“And if your brother becomes poor, and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall maintain him; as a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.
who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
And the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brethren who lived in Judea;
only they would have us remember the poor, which very thing I was eager to do.
Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all the day; and it shall not be in the power of your hand to prevent it.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.